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Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: The last time comedienne Katy Brand performed a live show was at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe. It’s a completely different affair as she embarks on her first UK tour this week. Voted Best Female Newcomer in the 2008 British Comedy Awards and 2010 Loaded LAFTA’s Funniest Woman award winner, Katy Brand [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Lucy Bailey Reviewer: Toni Stott-Rates The Public Reviews Rating: Entertaining from the moment the bell tolls signalling the audience to take their places, director Lucy Bailey has produced a play eminently suited to its stage. The use of audience engagement stopping just short of participation brings a sense of how it must have been [...]

Reviewer: Laura Wilson The Public Reviews Rating: “Crude with foul language”-that’s how one woman described Maxwell when she stormed out after the first half, and no one could really argue with that. However, if you can cope with a lot of ‘f words’ and a few “C Bombs”, as Maxwell calls them, then there is much frivolity in [...]

Writer: Craig Higginson Director : Katie McAleese Reviewer : Steve Turner The Public Reviews Rating: Set in a remote farm house in KwaZulu-Natal shortly after the millennium Dream Of The Dog transports us to a land of immense upheaval. The old order has been replaced, those once oppressed are now in power and the once powerful white farmers [...]

Book: Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood. Score: Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban Director: Simon Rawlings Choreographer: Ian Meeson Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Shows set in theatre rehearsals give the audience the best of both worlds. They get to enjoy slick production numbers but also experience the grit that lies under the glamour. A Chorus Line [...]

Writer: Jonathan Harvey Director: Hettie MacDonald Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: When reviewing a show, especially If I have to go after the main press night, I try my best to avoid reading any of the other reviews that have been published. but walking into the Playhouse theatre last night it is hard not to see [...]